Day 1: The Role of the Body in Therapy and Healing

Peter A. Levine, PhD: A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing

Pat Ogden, PhD: Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Healing Power of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW: Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT: The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process

Roger Kuhn, PhD: Somacultural Liberation: Reclaiming the Body Through Culture, Identity, and Compassion

Day 2: The Embodied Therapist and Listening to the Body

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD: Focusing: Accessing the “Felt Sense” as a Powerful Catalyst of Transformation in Any Form of Psychotherapy

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW: Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)

Staci Haines: Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC: Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

Dan Siegel, MD: Integration and the Mind: A Somatic View of Wholeness and Healing

Day 3: Somatic Tools in Action – Regulating, Resourcing, and Building Resilience

Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Licia Sky: Synchrony and Safety: Becoming an Anchor for Healing in Somatic Therapy

Chinwé Williams, PhD: Healing Attachment Wounds: A Somatic and EMDR-Informed Approach to Shame and Trauma

Shari Geller, PhD and Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP: Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion

Susan McConnell, MA, CHT: Embodied Self Energy: Bringing the Wisdom of the Body Into Internal Family Systems Therapy

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW: Begin with the Body: Cultivating Somatic Awareness in Therapy

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Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW

What you'll learn

Learn how attachment cries, defense cascades, and shutdown states shape the nervous system’s response to trauma
Distinguish between fawn, appease, freeze, and shutdown—and explore how each state reflects a unique survival strategy
Help clients map their window of capacity, recognize their somatic patterns, and develop personalized practices for self and community care

About the speakers

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW (she/her), is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting-edge brain- and body-based modalities for healing complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted at contextualizing, synthesizing, and communicating complex and nuanced issues related to trauma, attachment, and the nervous system—including the impact of systemic oppression on identity, mental health, and well-being. Linda is passionate about breaking cycles of historical and intergenerational trauma at both individual and community levels. She deeply believes in the healing power of grieving together in community. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former child refugee who redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be a United States-ian.